7 Important Creative Thinking Skills

We were on a call recently with an extended creative team generating ideas for client videos. During breaks, I found myself jotting down examples of important creative thinking skills the team was …

Christi Krug‘s insight:

Here are some helpful thoughts on creative collaboration, but contrary to the title, this article doesn’t give a wide range of creative thinking skills, just collaborative ones.

Collaboration is an important skill for artists and writers, but it is not the only skill. There can be a point of too much teamwork, which can smother independent ideas. There can also be the other extreme: too much independence and isolation, which can starve creativity.

Sometimes it’s hard to know whether it’s time to move inward or outward, but your creative instincts can help you understand the right timing for things.

Christi Krug

Christi teaches Wildfire Writing independently and for Clark College, and brings her enthusiastic,out-of-the-box creativity to numerous institutions in the Northwest. She works with individuals around the globe as a writing coach and editor. She is the award-winning author of "Burn Wild: A Writer's Guide to Creative Breakthrough," as well as hundreds of published articles, short stories, poems and works of creative nonfiction.